With a wealth of features -- including illustrations, a chronology, bibliography, and further reading -- Black Hawk and the War of 1832, Updated Edition reveals in searing detail how the Black Hawk War culminated in a final battle at Bad Axe River in Wisconsin that was so brutal that many local tribes fled to the West.

Table of Contents

• American Expansion and Removal
• The Sauk and Mesquakie in Illinois
• Diplomacy and Conflict on the Upper Mississippi River
• Sauk Leadership Fragments
• The Onset of War
• The Road to the Bad Axe River
• After the Black Hawk War
• Icons and Indians in the United States
• Chronology
• Bibliography